Let the bollocks begin
Thursday, 04 June 09, 09:58 AM · Comments(7)
Starting with Thomas Vermaelen, the Belgian superstar (ahem).
Unsubstantiated rumours imply that Vermaelen has signed for Arsenal. He's doing agreat job for Ajax at the minute, who finished third this year, beaten by
FC Twente and AZ Alkmaar to the Dutch Eredivisie.
Alkmaar conceded nearly half as many goals as Ajax throughout the season - so for Denilson-like stat lovers, Vermaelen's defending does not make pretty reading.
I know Wenger's record of signing defenders is pretty horrific, but surely even he wouldn't compute towerhouse plus experience equalling a 5'11, Belgian 23-year-old playing in Holland.
On a serious note - I'm seriously worried about one thing that might happen this summer, that being Wenger sells William Gallas and just buys a straight replacement. That is not strengthening the defence.
Gallas has to stay, if anyone should leave it should be Toure, otherwise it only takes one ill-timed injury for this Arsenal team to be stuck with a centre back partnership of Toure/Djourou/Silvestre and the impending suicide of everything that that entails.
Any other news? Yes, but nearly all of it's comedic.
Headlines over the past week have included "Eboue: I may leave Arsenal".
Unsubstantiated rumours imply that Vermaelen has signed for Arsenal. He's doing a
Alkmaar conceded nearly half as many goals as Ajax throughout the season - so for Denilson-like stat lovers, Vermaelen's defending does not make pretty reading.
I know Wenger's record of signing defenders is pretty horrific, but surely even he wouldn't compute towerhouse plus experience equalling a 5'11, Belgian 23-year-old playing in Holland.
On a serious note - I'm seriously worried about one thing that might happen this summer, that being Wenger sells William Gallas and just buys a straight replacement. That is not strengthening the defence.
Gallas has to stay, if anyone should leave it should be Toure, otherwise it only takes one ill-timed injury for this Arsenal team to be stuck with a centre back partnership of Toure/Djourou/Silvestre and the impending suicide of everything that that entails.
Any other news? Yes, but nearly all of it's comedic.
Headlines over the past week have included "Eboue: I may leave Arsenal".
Is that a threat or a promise?
Meanwhile, pink-booted, trouser-collapsing drunkard Nicklas Bendtner supposedly says: "In about three years, I will be
better than Zlatan (Ibrahimovic). I have a plan, I believe in it and I am ready. Next season, I can finally make my breakthrough and then I still have two years to become better than Zlatan –
and I will. By then I will be close to my peak and will be able to look upon myself as one of the world’s greatest strikers."
I always think it's better to boast after you've achieved something, not before it - although, in truth, these quotes
look somewhat artificial. It seems that wherever Bendtner goes, trouble follows.
But good luck anyway Nicky, we're right behind you - someone needs to hold your trousers up after all.
Now on to ex-Gunner Alex Hleb, who still needs to borrow a jimmy bar to prize his arse from the Barcelona bench. "I am bitterly disappointed," said Hleb in The Sun. "It's time to change my situation."
In the Champions League final, even 17-year-old Muniesa made the bench ahead of Hleb. Still, before we start gloating too much, it's worth remembering that Hleb did feature in six Champions League games this season, starting three - and he has a winner's medal to prove it. So obviously his move has not been a complete disaster.
Now on to Tony Adams, who says that Wenger has an enemy on the board and seems to be under the misapprehension that his "good friend" Wim Jansen will appoint him as Celtic's manager should he be appointed as technical director of the Scottish club.
A perplexed Jansen stated, "I can honestly say I don't know anything about it," No doubt perplexed Arsenal board members are saying exactly the same thing.
There's something about Adams that just doesn't sit right. An Arsenal legend no doubt, but also a bit of a strange chap. He's a good 15 years of management away from the Arsenal hot seat he would so love to acquire, although criticism of his credentials to date is slightly unfair. His two jobs to date, Wycombe and Portsmouth would have been desperately difficult for all but the most experienced of managers.
That just about wraps up this weeks' bollocks.
My advice is, don't believe anything you read in the tabloids, or the broadsheets - who have now become tabloid in their desperate attempts for attention. Money ruins everything it seems. Don't believe the bloggers either, the're just piggy backing on every story going to get hits for advertising, or plain making things up.
Only one website will tell you what's happening with regard to new Arsenal signings, Arsenal.com. And they won't tell you until the day it's done.
Arsenal Truth doesn't need to do tell fibs; I don't see a penny from advertising. Although if I could make serious money out of click-throughs, maybe I'd sell my soul to the devil too - after all, it's the nature of the beast.
But good luck anyway Nicky, we're right behind you - someone needs to hold your trousers up after all.
Now on to ex-Gunner Alex Hleb, who still needs to borrow a jimmy bar to prize his arse from the Barcelona bench. "I am bitterly disappointed," said Hleb in The Sun. "It's time to change my situation."
In the Champions League final, even 17-year-old Muniesa made the bench ahead of Hleb. Still, before we start gloating too much, it's worth remembering that Hleb did feature in six Champions League games this season, starting three - and he has a winner's medal to prove it. So obviously his move has not been a complete disaster.
Now on to Tony Adams, who says that Wenger has an enemy on the board and seems to be under the misapprehension that his "good friend" Wim Jansen will appoint him as Celtic's manager should he be appointed as technical director of the Scottish club.
A perplexed Jansen stated, "I can honestly say I don't know anything about it," No doubt perplexed Arsenal board members are saying exactly the same thing.
There's something about Adams that just doesn't sit right. An Arsenal legend no doubt, but also a bit of a strange chap. He's a good 15 years of management away from the Arsenal hot seat he would so love to acquire, although criticism of his credentials to date is slightly unfair. His two jobs to date, Wycombe and Portsmouth would have been desperately difficult for all but the most experienced of managers.
That just about wraps up this weeks' bollocks.
My advice is, don't believe anything you read in the tabloids, or the broadsheets - who have now become tabloid in their desperate attempts for attention. Money ruins everything it seems. Don't believe the bloggers either, the're just piggy backing on every story going to get hits for advertising, or plain making things up.
Only one website will tell you what's happening with regard to new Arsenal signings, Arsenal.com. And they won't tell you until the day it's done.
Arsenal Truth doesn't need to do tell fibs; I don't see a penny from advertising. Although if I could make serious money out of click-throughs, maybe I'd sell my soul to the devil too - after all, it's the nature of the beast.
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